MAILBAG:

When an oilman and environmentalists agree, you know the momentum for real change is building.

In Denver last week, Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens and Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope talked about the Pickens Plan, which calls for huge increases in investment and production of wind power and using American natural gas as a transition.

Americans should take notice — while more drilling for oil might enrich big oil companies trying to wring every drop out of oil profits before the inevitable, the real economic opportunity lies not with the failed ideas of the past but with real investment in the transition to a clean energy economy.

Pickens and Pope realize this. Now it’s time we all follow that path.

I am a member of the Sierra Club and urge you to support our messages for clean energy.

DEBRA FROUDE